The Beat of My Heart

The Beat of My Heart
Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 1, 1957[1]
RecordedJune 27 – October 25, 1957
StudioCBS 30th Street (New York City)
GenreJazz
Length29:34 original LP
44:34 CD reissue
LabelColumbia
CL 1079
ProducerMitch Miller
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The Beat of My Heart is a 1957 album by jazz singer Tony Bennett. For this Columbia album Tony Bennett had started working with English jazz pianist Ralph Sharon and together they devised this percussion influenced treatment and invited percussionists Chico Hamilton, Jo Jones, Billy Exiner, Art Blakey, Candido Camero and Sabu Martinez to take part; Ralph Sharon was arranger and conductor.

Sony Music Distribution included this CD in a box set entitled The Complete Collection, which contains fifty-eight of his studio albums, 4 compilation, three DVDs, six volumes of Bennett’s non-album singles, a previously unreleased CD of his Las Vegas debut from 1964, and two discs of rarities, including Bennett’s first recording, an Army V-Disc of “St. James Infirmary Blues, and was released on November 8, 2011.[2]

  1. ^ Tony Bennett.com
  2. ^ "The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 October 2024.